Interview with Phil Pearlman, Director of Community at StockTwits (Audio)
StockTwits is an open, community-powered investment idea and information service built on the Twitter platform. On November 5, 2009 Phil Pearlman posted an invitation to IROs to join the community. We thought it’d be interesting to dig a little deeper to learn about StockTwits, where it’s headed and how companies can benefit in being a part of it.
Phil Pearlman is an investor in and the Director of Community at StockTwits. Prior to this, he was a co-founder of Lumina Fund Management, a long/short equity hedge fund which focuses on behavioral and sentiment analysis to exploit under and overreactions in options markets. He is a contributor to Real Money, a paid service owned by TheStreet.com. He currently trades a private account in New York.
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The StockTwits platform has over 95,000 followers made up of experienced Traders and Investors with approximately 15,000 -20,000 of those that regularly Tweet with thousands of others who haven’t signed up, but are lurking on the sidelines checking it out, but not formally contributing.
The StockTwits community allows access to the best information that sophisticated investors are finding out about companies and sharing with others. IROs have yet to get in on the conversation, but the opportunity is huge – to share information and speak directly with informed investors who are current and potential shareholders.
To get started using StockTwits for your company is easy. First (using your companies Twitter account) follow StockTwits on Twitter. Then append each tweet with a $ sign and your symbol. For example: $MFST and StockTwits will then index those tweets. If your company is using Twitter for IR, using StockTwits makes a ton of sense.
If you have questions that were not answered during the interview you can find Phil on Twitter @ppearlman or email him directly at phil at stocktwits dot com.
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